South Ayrshire Local Plan
Agricultural Land
The
predominant land use within the countryside is agriculture, which
is of importance in terms of employment, the landscape character
and ecological diversity of these areas. Prime quality agricultural
land and better quality grazing land/in-bye land is regarded as
a national resource which should be protected from development
unless there is justification as to why its loss to development
is necessary.
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POLICY
ENV13
There
will be a presumption in favour of protecting prime quality
agricultural land (defined as grade 1, 2 or 3.1 in the Macauley
Land Classification system), where an alternative location
for development may exist.
NOTE
The principles of this policy will also be applied where
agricultural land or holdings are potentially fragmented
by proposed development.
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